Instructional objectives
At the end of this lesson, the student would be able to :(i) Identify the necessity of “manufacturing”(ii) Define with examples the concept of “manufacturing”(iii) List the main classifications of the manufacturing processes with examples(iv) State the main purposes of “machining”(v) Define with examples the concept of “machining”(vi) State with example the principles of “machining”(vii) State with examples the main requirements for “machining”(viii) State with examples the main functions of “Machine tools”(ix) Define the concept of “machine tools”
(i) Manufacturing – Need and concept
The progress and the prosperity of human civilization are governed and judged mainly by improvement and maintenance of standard of living throughavailability or production of ample and quality goods and services for men’smaterial welfare (MMW) in all respects covering housing, clothing, medicine,education, transport, communication and also entertainment. The successfulcreation of men’s material welfare (MMW) depends mainly on
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availability of natural resources (NR)
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exertion of human effort (HE); both physical and mental
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development and use of power tools and machines (Tools),This can be depicted in a simple form,MMW = NR(HE)
TOOLS
where, NR: refers to air, water, heat and light, plants and animalsand solid and liquid mineralsTOOLS: refers to power plants, chemical plants, steel plants,machine tools etc. which magnify human capability.This clearly indicates the important roles of the components; NR, HE and TOOLSon achieving MMW and progress of civilization.Production or manufacturing can be simply defined as value addition processesby which raw materials of low utility and value due to its inadequate materialproperties and poor or irregular size, shape and finish are converted into highutility and valued products with definite dimensions, forms and finish impartingsome functional ability. A typical example of manufacturing is schematicallyshown in Fig. 1.1.Version 2 ME IIT, Kharagpur
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